Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:59:57 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum - A Way to Create Without Losing Data? Message-ID: <20021021232957.GC92883@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <8765vwbm1v.fsf@pooh.int> <200210211407.g9LE7kx12871@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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On Monday, 21 October 2002 at 10:07:46 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > [Missing attribution to Kirk Strauser] >> >> At 2002-10-21T01:15:48Z, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: >> >>>> I have one 80G archive drive and have filled it. I added another and >>>> would like to have both drives seen by the system as one 160G drive. >> >>> You can't do that. UFS won't let you coalesce two file systems. Neither >>> will any other file system that I can think of. >> >> It sounded like he was asking about growfs(8). I haven't used it, but >> wouldn't that work? > > It sounds to me like he is talking about software raid. > Take a look at the 'vinum' stuff. That's what he's talking about. > But, I don't think you can do it to your root filesystem. That's not what he's talking about. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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